Sentences with phrase «power generation problem»

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Other but perhaps more serious problems devolve on any future generations that must rely on nuclear power.

Here's where I think the problem comes in: For generations, religion was a dominant power in society and politics.

-- Suppose there lived a man in the immediately succeeding generation who combined in his own person a tyrant's power with a tyrant's passion, and suppose that this man had somehow conceived the idea of concentrating his entire time and energy upon the problem of bringing the truth to light on this point, would this constitute him a disciple?

Fashola who boasted that power generation has grown from 2,690 megawatts in 2015 to 6,800 this August, there is a problem with distribution caused by the inability of Discos to upgrade their equipment to the level of the generation being made.

But that, too, has its problems — not just of power loss and heat generation over long distances, but also of public acceptability and cost.

But switching to natural gas for power generation does not solve the climate problem, scientists cautioned.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

To get around these problems, Japan's Toshiba and Hyperion Power Generation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, are pushing rival micro reactors.

The problem with wind continues to be its intermittent power generation and short - lived energy storage capacity.

Over generations there is now a worldwide population of sugar addicts, not unlike the cigarette smoking craze that peaked in the 1950s and 60s, only worse because the problem is not taken seriously, and the powers - that - be are addicts too.

That the task force has found power structure problems to be central to its own generation's concerns about education does not diminish Risk «s prescience.

«Educators have an opportunity to engage students in shared problem solving towards the goals, and the responsibility to instill in the next generation a deep understanding of the power of informed action and the perils of inaction.

In addressing those questions, a new generation of schools is using models that combine the benefits of personalized learning — accurate diagnosis and individually paced content mastery — with the power of project - based learning — extended challenges that promote deeper - learning competencies such as critical thinking, working collaboratively, problem solving, and taking responsibility for one's own learning.

One thing Mazda never managed to solve however, was the problem with fuel consumption, and although the latest generation of Renesis rotary engines were far more efficient than its predecessors, it just couldn't deliver the same power, torque and high - mpg ratings as modern conventional turbocharged engines.

Through hands - on exhibits powered by science, technology, engineering and math, MOXI will equip the next generation of innovators and problem solvers with the creativity and critical thinking skills they need to be successful in the global marketplace.

As a result, we are raising generations of people who have no idea about the power of the creative process to solve problems, find beauty in the world around us, or relate to others in an engaging, constructive, and deeply meaningful way.»

This EPR plant represents the «new generation» of nuclear power plants that would supposedly be faster and cheaper to build, and free of the problems that plagued previous designs, and has been touted by the industry as the foundation of its «revival».

The problem with designs like the air car is that you must first fix the power generation issue.

The problems are: Lack of a constructive, earth nurturing moral outlook, ideology that encourages expanding capitalist economies that do not factor ecological capital or its destruction into their bottom line, greed as a way of life, corporate imperatives and power, intentionally misinformed or ignorant public (especially in the United States and China), inertia, rampant bad design in energy generation, housing, transportation, community planning, consumer products and packaging and materials cycling, etc..

In this page I will deal mainly with the burning of Australian coal for power generation, called thermal coal; the burning of high - grade coal, called metallurgical coal, while not generally so polluting does add to the problem.

But this poses a problem as the share of power generation from variable renewables such as wind and solar PV rises.

Let alone exciting things such as social unrest, power generation reactors are subject to the more mundane problems of boredom, sloth, indolence, greed and failed imagination.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

Power storage remains a problem but wind, hydro and photo - voltaic generation is costly but very possible.

And in this episode of the nation's climate history, once again, the same industry that foresaw the ultimate end of coal as a main fuel for power generation later supported actions to cast doubt on the science and to stave off policies to address the problem, funding groups that deny the scientific consensus and joining the main industry group that opposed participation in the first climate treaty.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

I was always fascinated by wind generation, but I hate the idea of connecting it to the AC power grid as it causes problems for grid.

Without a doubt, however, the generations that innovated nuclear power will leave the waste problem for later generations to solve, which is perhaps the innovators» ultimate failure.»

Because of these existing dispatchable resources, California poses a less challenging problem than most areas elsewhere, most or all practical renewable energy sources are variable generation, and dedicated storage must be purchased for leveling power output.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

As Hansen himself said last year: «For base - load electric power, I think that we need next - generation nuclear power, which can be much safer and which can burn nuclear waste and solve that major problem with nuclear power.»

The green proposition of electric cars, especially the plug - in variety, is that by promoting the development of electricity generation and energy storage technology development (in the form of energy storage devices such as batteries), electric cars are not only reducing the need for gasoline, but also creates pull factors for the development of grid - connected renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy by creating new electricity demand and provide energy storage solutions to address the problems of the intermittent nature of solar and wind power.

Our power generation is on a knife edge, a cold winter would cause enormous problems as we have no spare capacity due to coal being phased out.

It's a classic dilemma: If the solution to the climate problem is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through nuclear power, then future generations spared catastrophic global warming must figure out what to do with our radioactive waste.

Evan Halper's December 2 article in the Los Angeles Times, «Power Struggle: Green energy versus a grid that's not ready» perpetuates the false narrative that renewable energy increases the risk of blackouts, when in fact the problem is centralized fossil fuel nonrenewable generation.

The majority of DG solar projects are located in China's more populated central and eastern regions and therefore have fewer problems with curtailment or transmission losses, with power being consumed at or near to the point of generation.

The problem with the storage of fissionable nuclear waste is drastically reduced with third and fourth generation nuclear power, but it is still a problem.

There is no one solution to our current dilemma, reducing energy consumption should have a higher priority than building wind farms, but wind power is just as much a long - term solution to the sustainable energy problem as is any generation technology.

IMO, it would be logical to turn the Climate debate away from climate fortune telling and focus instead on the true cause of the problems associated with power generation and consumption.

A part of the problem of the pseudo-random variability of supply and demand could be overcome by introducing Supply Dependent Load, which is discussed in my Sustainable Electricity page and hydropower could also be used to balance generation and consumption (as is done very effectively with wind power in Denmark balanced by hydropower from Norway).

The problem is it won't be the cheapest without major technological breakthroughs in safe nuclear power generation and / or fossil fuel reserves become so depleted the cost of recovery makes the price surpass that of current nuclear power generation.

We have had, at a time when nuclear technology holds the promise of solving a perplexing problem, a shocking lack of commitment to developing improved nuclear power generation.

Researchers are coming up with ways to solve the problems that are being caused by renewable energy, investors are putting capital to the task, and apparently the Chinese have discovered that sick people is a bigger problem than power generation.

In fact, before Brook heard about fourth generation nuclear, he thought the global warming problem was intractable because his own calculations confirmed the observations of many others (including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, MIT President Susan Hockfield and US Senator Lamar Alexander) regarding the necessity of nuclear power due to the problems with renewables being able to scale to meet our energy needs.

Last month, AIST announed its new flexible CIGS Photovoltaic Cell with an energy conversion efficiency of 17.7 %, noting that the growing concerns about environmental problems and increasing crude oil prices has led to an increased interest in power generation using renewable energy such as photovoltaics and other new energy resources.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

The renewable energy market has been expanded, and the FIT system is being revised to address several problems as a result of the rapid expansion of the renewables market, including a newly adopted bid pricing system for certain solar power generation projects, the first of which is expected to occur within this year.

A generation of vulnerable people could be faced with problems managing their finances and assets if improvements to the process of setting up a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is not improved, according to leading law firm Roythornes Solicitors.

There's a pretty big number of startups experimenting in this space (by startup standards) with the promise of creating a new generation of hardware that can handle AI problems faster and more efficiently while potentially consuming less power — or even less space.